This book will analyse a sample of maritime terminology used along the
Saudi Red Sea coast and attempt to understand why lexica are lacking in
such terms; an issue which can be linked to the language change was a
consequence of the interaction between Arabs and other ethnic communities since the advent of Islam. This change raised alarm among lexicographers and linguists at the time of documenting the terminology,
who set off on long journeys to collect the pure language. In their word
collecting they selectively documented the language, ignoring a huge
amount of spoken registers because their aim was to collect the classical
form of Arabic in order to help Muslims gain a deeper understanding of
the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth. This created gaps in Arabic lexicography, which
lacks terminology for material culture